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Love Quotes by Voltaire

41 Love quotes by Voltaire

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Voltaire writes of love as a first‑time blaze of passion, filled with idolatry and wild feeling. He later says love can be a canvas embroidered by imagination, lasting as long as life when rooted in virtue. The quotes also note that love can be both a powerful force and a source of playful pain.

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What can we say with certainty?

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“The heart has its own reasons that reason can't understand.”

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I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health.

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Almost all life depends on probabilities.

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Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

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Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders.

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I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion.

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

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Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.

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Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.

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No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as…

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Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.

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Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

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This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is…

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Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he…

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“My dear young lady, when you are in love, and jealous, and have been flogged by the Inquisition, there's no knowing what…

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He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical…

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Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss…

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“My dear miss," said Candide, "when one is in love, jealous, and has been whipped by the Inquisition, one becomes a stranger…

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He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him…

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Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition,…

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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is…

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“There is a concatenation of events in this best of all possible worlds: for if you had not been kicked out of…

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“That is why all romantics are anti-Voltairean, even Michelet, whose political fervor ought to have made him stand aligned with Voltaire; and…

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“I have been in several provinces of that kingdom. In some, one half of the people are fools and madmen; in some,…

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“I already began to inspire the men with love. My breast began to take its right form, and such a breast! white,…

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“...he inquired into the cause and effect, as well as into the sufficing reason that had reduced Pangloss to so miserable a…

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“Were you ever in France, Mr. Martin?" said Candide. "Yes," said Martin, "I have been in several provinces. In some one-half of…

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All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; after all, if you had not been driven from a fine…

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A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.

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Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

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Excellently observed", answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden.

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I have wanted to kill myself a million times, but somehow I am still in love with life.

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The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.

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“I know this love, that sovereign of hearts, that soul of our souls; yet it never cost me more than a kiss…

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“Self love is like that instrument by which we propagate the species: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives…

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It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love,…

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“Beautiful maiden,” answered Candide, “when a man is in love, is jealous, and has been flogged by the Inquisition, he becomes lost…

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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life

Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need